Sunday 6 September 2009

Making Good Use of the Things that we Find



Water voles seem to be fairly pragmatic about litter - as long as it doesn't pollute the water, or attract rats - and will often use objects that have been dumped in the water as a shelves for their latrines. In the middle picture you can see an old bucket that's been pressed into service in the same way as the tree branch next to it.
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Now it's September, vole-spotting days are numbered, but I'm trying to get surveys in between the rain showers. Took the opportunity to have a poke about at White Lion Meadow, but although there's feeding on both sides of the bridge, it isn't definitively water-vole so I don't know for sure whether they're present on that site or not.

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